Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-02-10

The bill creating an additional Judge for
the supreme court of the state, and In
creasing the term OF office to ten years,
instead of six, has passed the senate, and
that, too, with but one dissenting voice:
Rairden. the new senator from Wayne.
voting in the negative. The bill as passed
does not effect the increase OF salary and
that question will be made the subject or
q special order.
Hubbells Joint resolution to the consti-
tuition. making the salary of governor
So. OOO the attorney general 5000, the
state treasurer, the secretary or state and
the commissioner of laud office each 81
500, and the superintendent or public in
struction 81, 800, passed the senate without
discussion, yeas ~, nays D.
Petitions numerously signed have been
sent to both houses, relative to the consti-
tutional limitation affecting the terms or
office OF sheriffs. These petitions indicate
that there is pretty general feeling in
favor of removing the limitations.
A delegation of good men and women
who want the "age Of consent" in females
raised to Is years appeared before the
judiciary committees of the senate ana
house the other morning. DR.. l.. Anna
Ballard OF Lansing representing the state
department. OF social purity, opened the
discussion by reading a carefully prepared
paper in which she took strong grounds
that the limit should not be fixed at IA or
10, but should be placed as high az Is years.
Mrs. Rachel Bailey OF Hastings. represena-
tive of the state board of the W. G. Il. u,
Mesdames Ketchum and Elizabeth Eagles
field of Grand Rapids, and one or two
other ladies, followed in .hort addresses,
while Bishop Gillespie of Grand Rapids
and the Rev. NJ. M. Callan of Lansing also
spoke In support of the same proposition.
Other ladies of the delegation were Mes
danes j. b. Porter and =. V. Emery OF
Lansing and Hodges of Grand Rapids.
Notwithstanding the efforts OF these
earnest people IL seems wholly improbable
that the present legislature will raise the
age of consent above fourteen years, which
will be four years higher than it now is.
A memorial has also been received by
the house from the association OF prose
cutting attorneys asking that the statutes
relating to the age of consent be amended
and the age be fixed at IL years.
Representative Croker is preparing a
bill to amend the law relating to the can
vass of votes The bill will make IL the
| duty of the board Of county or district
canvassers to reject as void all votes for
members of the legislature, who hold any
state. or any county Office" The bill will
give the persons voted for "a day in court''
that is to say, they may appear before the
district or county board OF canvassers and
make the application to throw out as
void, votes for United States, state or
county officers, and valid defense shall
be that ut a certain time before the cleo
ton the party complained of shall have
| resigned the Office, which he had previous
ly held. If he has not done so, or does not
appear, the certificate Of election must be
given to the other qualified candidate
having the next greatest number of votes.
Commissioner of Labor Ponds term ex-
pires on the 18th inst, but as yet the gov
ernor has not decided upon his successor,
and probably will not until after the recess
which begins on the I'd inst. There is
much conjecture as TO who will wear
Ponds official shoes; but If the governor
has decided, he's as mum as an oyster, and
no one is any the wiser.